1 The Value of Diligence Cast your bread Is. 32:20 upon the waters, (Deut. 15:10; Prov. 19:17; Matt. 10:42;2 Cor. 9:8; Gal. 6:9, 10; Heb. 6:10) For you will find it after many days.
2 Ps. 112:9; Matt. 5:42; Luke 6:30; (1 Tim. 6:18, 19) Give a serving Mic. 5:5 to seven, and also to eight, Eph. 5:16 For you do not know what evil will be on the earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain, They empty themselves upon the earth; And if a tree falls to the south or the north, In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not sow, And he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As John 3:8 you do not know what is the way of the wind, Ps. 139:14 Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed, And in the evening do not withhold your hand; For you do not know which will prosper, Either this or that, Or whether both alike will be good.
7 Truly the light is sweet, And it is pleasant for the eyes Eccl. 7:11 to behold the sun;
8 But if a man lives many years And Eccl. 9:7 rejoices in them all, Yet let him Eccl. 12:1 remember the days of darkness, For they will be many. All that is coming is vanity.
9 Seek God in Early Life Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; Num. 15:39; Job 31:7; Eccl. 2:10 Walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these Eccl. 3:17; 12:14; (Rom. 14:10) God will bring you into judgment.
10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And 2 Cor. 7:1;2 Tim. 2:22 put away evil from your flesh, Ps. 39:5 For childhood and youth are vanity.